30.12.08

teasing out the text



while also making possible: detours, diversions, allusions, imaginations. Finally, this is my basic, reduced list of key elements for the new work ...a list of key topics or subjects, concerns, interests - with some associations thrown in:

*/syrup
junction of city, street, whore (Babylon)
defiled space/s
ruses/reuse

*/fruit (removed with a slotted spoon)
technology (& networked) (virtual space)
subversion/negotiation/survival
othering
body horror dis/ease
the clown/death/failure/decay/debris
the high & the low (hierarchical space/s)
the public/s voice/s
private space & public space
built space
social space

i could go on.....
meantime: casting and folding



today: walking
to Brynna's house
with peaches
and back
with Lucky along
the grassy stretch that grows
beside the City to Bay
tram line


That writing should benefit the process/es of art making is not hard to comprehend but accounting for the benefits of publishing my (what must surely be, to anyone other than myself, picayune) journal entries on a blog is something I find difficult to do; of course comments from readers, if not always forthcoming, are always valued, and often edifying, and the internet can, potentially, facilitate dialogue with a vast, diverse and geographically widespread audience.

4 comments:

Julie said...

Dear M, I broke your post down into tasty chunks over the last couple of weeks:) I am looking forward to seeing your work in July. Let me know if I can help or provide any materials etc x.

Mel said...

Hi Julie,

Wow - what a generous and kind offer - one I'll be only too glad to take you up on - it'll be so nice to have your company - and some help! xx

Julie said...

Dear Mel

just popping by to say hello and to say I have missed your posts. I bet you are busy with the exhibition. Hope to chat soon etc x.

Mel said...

Hi Julie - needing you, wanting you!